Here are a few thoughts about the Super Bowl. No, not my pick . . . Click here . Haven’t figured out yet how to have you click on the picture. Everything in its season.
What PTE is Not
I have often heard Christians who want to be culturally engaged and relevant appeal to the old statement from Augustine, when he justified Christians partaking of classical learning, saying that we were “plundering the Egyptians.” And there is something to that. We don’t want simply to echo Tertullian’s famous comment when his famous Jerusalem said …
Americana Meets Fantasy
Get Between the Hogs and the Bucket
As I have been writing on “creation and food,” and the whole ag-econ system that gets food on our plates, some may assume that I want to be nothing more than a shill for the status quo. However, this assumption would go clean contrary to quite a number of things I have written about it, …
Bread or Toast?
Guy Waters is next up in Tabletalk, and he asks whether the church has misunderstood justification. He says, “Justification in the present, N.T. Wright claims, is primarily about how you can tell who belongs to the church. It is not primarily about the salvation of the sinner. Wright, of course, is not saying that justification …
How Many Idahos Would It Take?
These numbers are approximations for the most part, sketched out on the back of a napkin. They may be a reflection of my deficient education in math growing up, or of me believing the wrong web site on how much hay an acre of grassland produces, or perhaps a function of some other gross personal …
Political Kabuki
On the tube this evening, I saw a couple of neocons surrendering on the question of homosexuals in the military. The top brass are starting to capitulate on it, Obama is going a whole lot slower than the homosexual activists want him to, but he is moving on it, and what passes for a right …
Staying on Message
“All the sermons in Acts have one essential point — Jesus Christ is risen from the dead” (Wagner, Tongues Aflame, p. 97).
And Fame Cogs
“The poet Rainer Rilke was quite prescient when he observed that anyone who investigates the ‘thousands of fame-wheels and fame-belts’ of the fame industry is ‘ultimately also pressed into service and soon contributes to the machine’s monstrous actions and berserk roaring'” (Halpern, Fame Junkies, p. xxviii).
How About Saturday Then?
“When a girl says no to a young man, he often feels free to press her for her reasons. She may not have to date him, but she frequently has to debate him” (Her Hand in Marriage, p. 77).